Lazarus W. Powell

Lazarus Whitehead Powell (6 October 1812-3 July 1867) was Governor of Kentucky (D) from 2 September 1851 to 4 September 1855 (succeeding John L. Helm and preceding Charles S. Morehead) and a US Senator from 4 March 1859 to 3 March 1865 (succeeding John Burton Thompson and preceding James Guthrie).

Biography
Lazarus Whitehead Powell was born in Henderson County, Kentucky in 1812, and he became a lawyer in 1835. He served in the state legislature as a Democrat, and he served as Governor from 1851 to 1855 and as a US Senator from 1859 to 1865. He favored his state's neutrality policy during the American Civil War, and he also opposed President Abraham Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. He left the Senate in 1865, and he died in 1867.